We present evidence on the changing dynamics of the yield curve from 1998 to 2011. We identify four different phases. As expected, the financial crisis represents a period of elevated yield volatility, but it can be split into two distinct periods. The split occurs when the Federal Reserve...

We present evidence on the changing dynamics of the yield curve from 1998 to2011. We identify four different phases. As expected, the financial crisis represents a period of elevated yield volatility, but it can be split into two distinct periods. The split occurs when the Federal Reserve...

On 4 March 2011, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and the National Bank of Poland jointly organised a conference on the theme of: "Monetary Policy after the Crisis". Following a call for papers with a large number of submissions, the scientific committee selected 9 papers, which...

A stable relationship between monetary policy rates and bank lending and deposit rates faced by consumers and companies is essential for the effective transmission of monetary policy decisions. This paper studies how changes in the policy rate set by the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, have...

This paper analyses the monetary transmission mechanism for France over the period 1999-2012 through two of its main channels: the interest rate channel and the bank lending channel. It also focuses on the impact of the recent financial crisis on the pass-through to interest rates and credit...

The paper aims at showing that one of the main channels by which the US 2007 financial crisis became a real and global economic crisis is the 'confidence channel', i.e. that the financial crisis affected firms, banks and households’ expectations and confidence, thus leading to what they...

This work has the purpose to analyse the strategy of direct inflation targeting starting from theoretical aspects and arriving at the revealing of main characteristics of this strategy in the case of our country. Likewise the work proposes itself to state out the decisions of monetary policy...

There is a line of reasoning which argues that the main source of the current financial crisis is the cheap money of the past, which would have caused large global imbalances and another, that I share, is that something wrong has been occurring with overall financial intermediation. The...

We use high-frequency intraday interest rate data to measure euro area monetary policy shocks on the days of ECB interest rate announcements between 2002 and 2013. In line with Gürkaynak et al. (2005), we look at monetary policy shocks along two time dimensions: one related to the current level...

This paper uses a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) estimated on U.S. data in order to analyze monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to explore the role of monetary policy in the three...